A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition Edited by James G. Carrier Senior Research Associate in Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bioomington, USA Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA Contents List of contributors " ix Preface and acknowledgements xviii Introduction —- 1 James G. Carrier PART I ORIENTATIONS 1 KarlPolanyi 13 Barry L. Isaac 2 Anthropology, political economy and world-system theory 26 J.S. Eades 3 Political economy 41 Don Robotham 4 Decisions and choices: the rationality of economic actors 58 Sutti Ortiz 5 Provisioning 77 Susana Narotzky 6 Community and economy: economy's base 95 Stephen Gudeman PART II ELEMENTS 7 Property 111 Mark Busse \ 8 Labour 128 E. Paul Durrenberger 9 Industrial work 145 Jonathan Parry 10 Money in twentieth-century anthropology 166 Keith Hart vi A handbook of economic anthropology, second edition 11 Finance 2.0 183 Bill Maurer 12 Distribution and redistribution 202 Thomas C. Patterson 13 Consumption . 220 Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld PART III CIRCULATION 14 Ceremonial exchange: debates and comparisons 239 Andrew Strathern and Pamela J, Stewart 15 Markets: places, principles and integrations 257 Kalman Applbaum 16 s The gift and gift economy 275 Yunxiang Yan 17 One-way economic transfers 291 Robert C. Hunt PART IV INTEGRATIONS 18 Gender 307 Maila Stivens 19 Environment and economy 325 Eric Hirsch 20 Culture and economy 344 Michael Blim 21 Economy and religion 361 Simon Coleman 22 Economies of ethnicity 377 Thomas Hylland Eriksen PART V ISSUES 23 Economic anthropology and ethics 397 Peter Luetchford 24 Households and their markets in the Andes 413 Enrique Mayer Contents vii 25 Peasants 433 Mark Harris 26 Economic valuations and environmental policy 451 Catherine Alexander 27 Anthropology and development: the uneasy relationship 469 David Lewis 28 The informal economy in comparative perspective 485 Martha Alter Chen PART VI REGIONS 29 South America 501 Terry Roopnaraine 30 Africa south of the Sahara 512 Mahir Saul 31 South Asia 529 John Harriss 32 East Asia 542 J.S. Eades 33 Towards an economic anthropology of Europe 553 Valeria Siniscalchi PART VII THE CRISIS 34 Oligarchy and state capture: Soviet-style mechanisms in contemporary finance capitalism 571 Don Kalb and Oane Visser 35 Anthropology - of the financial crisis 585 Horacio Ortiz 36 Economic crisis, 2008: what happened, what can be learned about how and why, what could happen next 597 Michael Blim 37 Terms of debate versus words in circulation: some rhetorics of the crisis , 612 Jane I. Guyer viii A handbook of economic anthropology, second edition 38 The financial crisis and the history of money 626 Keith Hart Index 639.